Frame display



P. ALCARAZ Sept. 11, 1956 FRAME DISPLAY Filed March 51, 1953 INVENTOR:.Q/zz'lg AZcoraz Q4 m 7% 0d m 15 fivrizegxs 2,762,148 Patented Sept. 11,1 956 FRAME DISPLAY Philip Alcaraz, Chicago, BL, assignor, by mesneassignments, to Arvey Corporation, Chicago, 111., a corporation ofDelaware Appiicatiou March 31, 1953, Serial No. 345,950 Claims. (Cl.40-155) This invention relates to collapsible frame displays and moreparticularly to a frame display adapted to be printed with suitableadvertising data and suspended, from a hook, or other fastening means,provided on a wall, merchandise counter, etc.

An object of this invention resides in the provision of a frame displayadapted to be blanked and formed from a single sheet of cardboard toprovide top, bottom and side frame portions enclosing a panel section.

Another object of this invention resides in the provision of a displayin which the marginal frame portions project forwardly from the plane ofthe panel section when the frame display is in its distended set-upcondition.

A further object of this invention resides in the provision of a framedisplay in which the frame portions may be collapsed to a fiatcondition, suitable for shipping or storage, with the frame portions ina common plane with the panel section.

Another object of this invention resides in the pro-vision of a framedisplay in which the frame portions are automatically locked in theirdistended position responsive to manual movement of the frame portionsforwardly from the plane of the panel section.

This invention embodies other novel features, details of constructionand arrangement of parts which are hereinafter set forth in thespecification and claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,wherein:

Fig. l is a front elevational view illustrating a frame displayembodying features of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary rear elevational view showing only one end ofthe frame display, as the ends are identical in construction.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken along the line 33of Fig. 1, illustrating the manner in which each locking flap engagesand holds sections of the frame display in their distended positions.

Fig. 4 is a plan view illustrating the manner in which a blank ofcardboard or the like is cut and scored to form the frame display.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view of a portion of the blank ascut and scored to form a locking fiap.

Referring now to the drawing for a better understanding of theinvention, the frame display is shown as comprising a single blank 6 offlexible material, such as cardboard, cut diagonally at 5 and scored at9 to define a rectangular panel 7, inner front frame sections 3 hingedlyconnected along score lines 9 to the four sides of the panel section,outer front frame sections 11 hingedly connected along score lines 12 totheir related sections 8, rear frame sections 13 hingedly connectedalong score lines 14 to their related sections 11, and attachment flaps16 hingedly connected along score lines 17 to their related sections 13.

Each attachment flap 16 is provided with one or more locking flaps 18adapted to lock the frame sections in their distended set-up positionsforwardly from the plane of the panel 7. Each locking flap 18 ispreferably formed on its related attachment flap by cutting the latterlongitudinally thereof at 1919 and transversely at 2121.:

and 2323, the locking flap being hingedly connected: to.

its related attachment flap along a score line 22.. Each locking flap 18is further scored at 24. and th'e transverse cut lines 2323 extended inpanel 16 tothe longitudinal cut 28 to provide side tongues 26-26 and ahingedly connected center tongue 27 projecting beyond the free ends ofthe side tongues.

In constructing a frame display from a blank 6, the; are swung from acommon plane with.

looking flaps 18 their respective attachment flaps 16 into fiat parallelengagement against the inner sides. of their related attachment flapswhich are then adhesively or otherwise secured to the rear surface ofthe panel section 7 to form a frame display in which the severalsections are disposed in a fiat collapsed condition.

To move the several sections of the frame display to their Jdistendedset-up positions, oppositely disposed rear frame sections 1313 aremanually pivoted forwardly. and toward each other to cause the sidetongues 2626 of the locking flaps 18 to swing forwardly until their freement of the locking flaps, the free ends of their respective centertongues 27 come to rest at the junctures of their related sections 11and 13, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and thus serve as braces resistingaccidental collapse of the frame display to its flattened condition.

When the several sections of the frame display are disposed in set-updistended position, it will be noted that the side tongues 26-26 of eachlocking flap 18 are disposed in a common plane at an acute angle to theplanes of their associated inner and outer frame sections 8 and 11, andthat the center tongue 27 is disposed at an acute angle to its relatedsections 11 and 13. The tongues 2626 and 27 of each locking flap 18 arethus engaged against movement relatively to each other or to the severalsections of the frame display.

In the use of the frame display, a thin sheet of paper lithographedthereon attached to the display.

While this invention has been shown in but one form,

the claimed invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a collapsible display, a single sheet having frame portions hingedto the margin of a panel, each frame portion having parallel scoresproviding an inner front section hinged to the panel, an to the innerfront section, a rear section hinged to the outer front section, and anattachment flap hinged to the rear frame section and secured to the backof the panel, said attachment flap having cuts and a score providing alocking flap hinged thereto, said locking flap having cuts and a scoreproviding a center tongue hinged thereto and interposed between andprojecting beyond the free ends of spaced side tongues, the cuts andscore defining said tongue being spaced from and parallel respectivelyto the cuts and score defining said locking flap, the

free end of the center tongue being in line engagement with the junctureof the outer front section and the rear section, and the side tongueshaving their free ends in line engagement with the juncture of the innerand outer front sections when the display is distended from collapsed toset-up condition.

2. A foldable display comprising a panel having frame portions, eachframe portion having parallel scores providing an attachment flap and aplurality of hingedly connected frame sections, said attachment flaphaving cuts and spaced parallel scores providing a pair of flap hingedlyconnected locking tongues, one being hinged thereto and the second beinghinged to the former and projecting outwardly from their respectivejunctures in diverging planes with their free ends in lineengagementwith spaced adjacent junctures of said frame sections.

3. A foldable display comprising a panel having frame portions, eachframe portion having parallel scores providing an attachment flap and aplurality of hingedly connected frame sections, said attachment flaphaving cuts and scores providing a pair of hingedly connected lockingtongues, one being Wholly carried by the other, projecting from eachother and from said attachment flap in diverging planes with their freeends engaging the junctures of adjacent frame sections, only one of saidlocking tongues being hinged to the attachment flap.

4. A foldable display comprising a panel having frame portions, eachframe portion having parallel scores providing an attachment flap andthree hingedly connected frame sections, said attachment flap havinghingedly connected Y-shape locking tongue hinged thereto andprojectingoutwardly therefrom with the arms of said Y projecting in divergingplanes with their free ends engaging adjacent frame sections along andparallel to the score lines therebetween.

' erally Y-shaped structure,

, 4 V v 5. A foldable display comprising a panel having frame portions,

frame sections, said attachment flap having cuts and scores providing alocking flap hinged thereto and a center tongue hingedly connected tothe locking flap at a point spaced between the flap hinge and its freeedge forming a genthe arms thereof projecting outwardly from each otherin diverging planes with their free ends engaging adjacent framesections along and parallel to the score lines therebetween, said framesections being angularly disposed to said panel and to each other.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS849,111 Fairchild Apr. 2, 1907 1,262,508 Kaufman Apr. 9, 1918 1,450,190Sonn Apr. 3, 1923 2,093,972 Ziemmerman Sept. 21, 1937 1 2,307,350Anderson Jan, 5, 1943 1 2,316,615 Piper Apr. 13, 1943 2,444,183 CahnersJune 29, 1948 2,562,590 Viglietta July 31, 1951 2,609,136 Sider Sept. 2,1952 each frame portion having parallel scores pro viding an attachmentflap and three hingedly connected

